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Zulqi'dah 24, 1433/October 11, 2012 # 45
A critical look at the claim that Pak Taliban shot the Paki
girl.
Please scroll.
Looks like an inside job.
Hadith transforms our lives.
Men, Women Children are Integral Parts of Masjid Community
by Kaukab Siddique
"Unus bin Malik narrates: Once the Messenger of Allah, pbuh,
recited very briefly from the Qur'an in the fajr prayer. He
was asked : O messenger of Allah, why such a brief
recitation? He replied: I heard a baby crying and I thought
that his mother is praying with us and I thought it better
to let the mother take care of the child as quickly as
possible." [Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Section 3, hadith
257.]
"When I start praying, I want to pray for a long time, but
then I hear a child crying and I make the prayer brief so
that the mother may not worry too much owing to the crying
of the child." [Prophet Muhammad, pbuh., Sahih al-Bukhari,
kitab al-Adhan and Sahih Muslim, kitabus Salat.]
"The sahaba narrate that once during Zuhr prayers, the
messenger of Allah, pbuh, stayed in prostration [sajda]
while leading prayers, for so long that we thought something
had happened or he had suddenly received revelation [wahy].
. After prayers people asked him why one sajda was so long?
Had something happened or revelation had come. He replied
that it was nothing but that my grandson sat on my back and
I did not want to get up quickly and ruin the fun he was
having." [Sunan of Nasa'i: 1/134]
These authentic hadith remind us that our community is meant
to be united, well-integrated community. Men, women and
children belong together in the masjid, with the rules and
discipline of Islam.
The mother is there and the Imam cares for her and for her
worries and cares. The little children are there and are
treated with love and patience. Very small children don't
know what's going on and will play horsy by climbing on your
back when you go into prostration [sajda].
The holiest mosque with prayers led by the holiest imam does
not neglect basic human needs like the crying of a baby.
Just look at the children of our ummah, globally. How they
cry for food, for love, for patience, and we keep praying as
if does not concern us. Humanity must be at the center of
our vision otherwise our prayers become conventional forms
without meaning.
Of course, as children grow, we must teach them about the
rules of prayer and respect for the mosque.
The Malalal Yousafzai Shooting Story Reeks of a Pakistani
Army Press Release
by Nadrat Siddique on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 2:23pm
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Nearly all U.S. corporate media are regurgitating virtually
the same set of "facts" on the shooting of Pakistani 14-year
old Malalal Yousafzai.
Although the event is not far in the past, there are many
disparities in the story, which shed doubt on its
authenticity: One corporate media report mentions the gunmen
as being masked. Another says they were bearded. It is
unclear how facial hair would be evident on a masked
individual.
According to an October 10 BBC report, "One report, citing
local sources, says a bearded gunman stopped a car full of
schoolgirls, and asked for Malala Yousafzai by name, before
opening fire. But a police official also told BBC Urdu that
unidentified gunmen opened fire on the schoolgirls as they
were about to board a van or bus."
Also worth noting is the vice-like embrace in which Paki
government officials have embraced this particular girl--or
more importantly her story, a story which serves to
discredit their opposition. Prime Minister Raja Pervez
Ashraf said: "We have to fight the mindset that is involved
in this. We have to condemn it... Malala is like my
daughter, and yours too. If that mindset prevails, then
whose daughter would be safe?" No Paki official offered
similar support to the Jamia Hafsa women when their Islamic
university was being attacked by Pakistani troops in 2007.
Even more oddly, the chief of the Pakistan army, General
Ashfaq Kayani, has taken great personal interest in the
girl. According to the October 10 Guardian, the "powerful
military chief has put himself at the centre of a national
outrage over the attempted murder" of Malalal. He went to
the extent of visiting her personally in the hospital. One
wonders what army chief has time or wherewithal to do that.
In a statement viewed as highly cynical by those aware of
the Pakistan army's multifarious human rights abuses, he
said "The cowards who attacked Malala and her fellow
students, have shown time and again how little regard they
have for human life and how low they can fall in their cruel
ambition to impose their twisted ideology." (Reuters,
October 10)
Over and over, the U.S.-funded Pakistani military has been
discredited for their extreme barbarism and complete
disregard for human rights and the Geneva Conventions. They
are viewed as collaborators with the U.S. and NATO by vast
segments of the Pakistani population.
In October 2010, the Pakistan military are said to have shot
250 Taliban prisoners. To shoot a girl such as Malala
Yousafzai would not be beyond such a force.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/new-video-appear-to-show-abuse-of-prisoners-by-pakistani-soldiers/
They have also collaborated with the U.S. in the killing of
hundreds of civilians. Waziristan native Noor Beharam, who
has repeatedly risked his life documenting the deaths of
women and children, believes that 670 women have been killed
by drone strikes. He has taken photos of more than 100
children, their bodies often unrecognizable as human after
the strikes
http://www.alternet.org/world/murder-skies-us-creating-new-eemies-where-there-were-none
The Pakistan military showed its prowess in media
manipulation and propaganda dissemination in the course of
the 2007 Lal Masjid siege, when they banned all media from
the besieged area.
This writer would not put it beyond the Pakistan army to
have sent one of their own to shoot Malalal themselves. It
would be a perfect red herring against the increasingly
organized opposition to their human rights abuses and to
the U.S. drone strikes in which they are complicit.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, Taliban spokesman, ostensibly claimed
responsibility for the attack on behalf of the group. Anyone
could call the Pakistani media, claim to be Ehsan, and
assume responsibility on behalf of his organization in order
to discredit it.
It is also possible that the action is the work of one or
two misguided individuals. They may have conducted the
action without the advance knowledge of the leadership. The
TPP is a very large organization, with broad public support
among the people of the frontier, and particularly of Swat,
where the Pak army has terrorized the population over an
extended period of time. Once the deed was done, they may
have unthinkingly accepted their organization's role in it.
But was the action sanctioned by the top leadership, and
approved in advance of the fact? Where are the interviews
with the Taliban leadership to ascertain this fact? The
corporate media, in keeping with their role as war time
propagandists have conducted no such interviews.
Imagine if a shooting was conducted by a Jewish or White
Supremacist gunman. It is extremely unlikely that any and
the organizations affiliated with him would be immediately
condemned. In this case, however, that is exactly what has
happened. And the TPP, which seems notoriously lacking in
its communication with the media, have allowed an entire
segment of the opposition to be linked with a single heinous
act, and therefore discredited.
Interestingly, only the VOA report of October 10 does not
credit the Taliban with the girl's shooting. The VOA is
highly regarded as the overt U.S. government propaganda
organ by independent news analysists and thinkers.
The contradictions in detail of the attackers; the fact that
Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State; the
President of Pakistan; the Prime Minister of Pakistan; and
the Pakistan Army Chief all went out of their way to condemn
the attack when they have yet to do so in a single one of
the killings of women and children by U.S. drones or by
their Pak army lackeys; and the absence of any detailed
interview with the Taliban are all very suspect to an
analytical mind. Regardless of who accepted responsibility
afterwards, might the shooting be a Pakistan
army/intelligence action? I would not be at all surprised if
the "details" picked up by all the major media organs
stemmed from a Pakistan army press release. The specter of a
young girl being murdered by a force endemic to a country
and fighting a foreign occupier is perfect wartime
propaganda to deflect the war crimes of the occupier.
Perspective: Muslims don't understand International Media
14-Year old Pakistani Girl's Tragedy: Used by Superpowers to
defeat Taliban & by-pass anti-Blasphemy Movement. & Drone
Attacks [Three strikes!]
by Kaukab Siddique
Hardly had the news made it out of Pakistan that Malala
Yousufzai had been shot, it was on the front page of the New
York Times online edition. Then New York Times veteran Islam
hater Nicholas Kristoff picked it up. {Oct. 10].
Secular Pakistanis are so impressed by the NY Times, that
they never paused to think: Isn't the NY Times the flagship
of left wing Zionism? Has it EVER in the last 20 years
published anything favorable to Islamic resistance on its
front page? The answer is: NEVER!
Here are the facts about Malala:
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She has been writing a blog for the BBC against the
Taliban for the last three years.
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She has worked hand-in-glove with western agencies such
as UNICEF which are being used by Paki military to
westernize Swat and other Islamic territories.
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She was so effective in anti-Taliban propaganda that
Obama's hard core Zionist representative Holbrooke
paid her a personal visit before his sudden death.
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The Pakistani government, which has committed genocide in
Frontier areas, gave her national level awards.
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An American Muslim Addresses the Suffering and Poverty of
the Masses of People
The US elections and the unemployed
by Jamil Abdur Rahman
National Muslim Council for Justice ( NMCJ )
8 October 2012
The controversy that has broken out over the US Labor
Department's report Friday on jobs and unemployment only
testifies to the unbridgeable gulf between the corporate
ruling elite, including both the Democratic and Republican
parties, and the working people who comprise the vast
majority of the population.
The official figures showed a net gain of 114,000 jobs
during the month of September, a number that closely tracked
previous estimates, combined with a greater than expected
drop in the unemployment rate, from 8.1 percent to 7.8
percent. More than 40 percent of the unemployed, nearly five
million workers, have been jobless for more than six
months.
The Obama administration and the Democratic Party
immediately hailed the decline in the unemployment rate,
which fell below 8 percent for the first time since Obama
entered the White House. They viewed the report as a welcome
change of subject from the president's dismal performance in
Wednesday night's presidential debate.
Republican Party and right-wing media pundits denounced the
report, particularly the unemployment rate, as the product
of a conspiracy by pro-Obama government officials to provide
a favorable jobless figure one month before the November 6
presidential election.
There is a seeming contradiction between the extremely
modest job gains reported by the survey of employers—only
114,000 net new jobs—and the survey of households that found
an increase of more than 800,000. However, the two figures
are generated by separat e surveys, with the household
survey itself notoriously volatile, and they frequently show
conflicting results.
Moreover, the household survey found the bulk of the
increase, nearly 600,000 jobs, came in part-time employment,
and much of this seems related to a change in the seasonal
pattern of college students reducing work hours when they go
back to school. August showed an unexpectedly large decline
in employment among those aged 20 to 24, 530,000 compared to
an historical average of 98,000. September's large increase
may simply reflect a reversal to that abnormal decline.
What is most remarkable about the controversy is how low the
bar has been set to mark economic "progress." Democrats
rejoice and Republicans cry foul over an unemployment report
that would in any other presidential year have been regarded
as catastrophic. No president since Franklin Roosevelt in
the Great Depression has been reelected with an unemployment
rate as high as 7.3 percent.
The two big business parties view the unemployment figures
purely from the standpoint of gaining an edge in the mutual
mudslinging of the final month of a presidential election
campaign. Neither party has the slightest concern for the
actual conditions of life of the 12.1 million officially out
of work, the 23 million who are either unemployed or working
only part-time when they need full-time jobs, or the tens of
millions more living in poverty and increasing
desperation.
Obama and the Democrats have proposed nothing to put the
unemployed back to work, let alone create jobs that pay
anything above poverty-level wages. The "stimulus" package
adopted in 2009, when the Democrats controlled both houses
of Congress, was deliberately crafted to attract Republican
support, focusing on tax cuts for business and excluding any
direct job creation by the federal government.
From the time Obama entered the White House, his major
concern was to bail out the Wall Street banks and the auto
companies at the expense of the working class.
The Republicans, who traditionally set the agenda and
boundary lines of big business politics, have been even more
vehement in opposition to any measures to alleviate poverty,
unemployment and social misery, proposing budgets that would
virtually wipe out domestic social spending, ending food
stamps and Medicaid as entitlements and transferring them to
the states with strictly limited funding.
Romney, in a moment of genuine candor, revealed the real
attitude of both presidential candidates towards working
people when he dismissed the "47 percent" who believe they
are entitled to decent hous ing, food and social services.
"I can't worry about them," he said. This 47 percent
includes all the unemployed whom the Republican candidate
pretends to sympathize with in his campaign speeches.
The National Muslim Council for Justice ( NMCJ ) demands an
emergency public works program to provide employment for
all, rebuilding schools, hospitals, public housing, roads,
mass transportation and other social infrastructure. We
demand paid job training and employment for all laid-off
workers and for the new generation of young people now
entering the workforce. We call for the mobilization of the
working class in direct struggle against mass layoffs and
workplace shutdowns, particularly under conditions where a
new downturn in the economy is looming.
The fight for jobs is bound up with a broader struggle to
develop a mass political movement of American Muslims and
working class based on a Islamic program.
NMCJ is an advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance
the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, empower
American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice
and mutual understanding. www.nmcj.org
I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no
matter who it is for or against. ( El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
)
2012-10-12 Fri 17:12:35 cdt
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